The side effects of a growing economy and extensive use of biotechnology pushed indian farmers into the world's greatest agrarian crisis. "CottonDreams" delves into life of one such family and brings out a tragic tale of love, life and sacrifice under extreme living conditions in rural India.

Sandeep Rampal Balhara is a film director of Indian origin currently studying at Lodz film school, Poland. He has made several short fiction and documentary films (including Absinthe, CottonDreams, SóI i Pieprz, Wszystko w Porządku), which depict his subtle observational standpoint about the complexities of human emotional existence. He also writes for the screen and often edits his own films.

His second year documentary project CottonDreams is an emphatic portrayal about how a poor family is enduring the world’s largest agrarian crisis in rural India. The short documentary acclaimed 14 awards and special mentions; and has been nominated at 64 International Film Festivals across the globe.

Between 1974 and 1992 Inquinosa produced 140,000 tons of toxic HCH waste that were buried in several uncontrolled dumps in Sabiñánigo. Inquinosa produced LINDANE, a pesticide banned in the EU since 2000 and worldwide by the Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention in 2009.

In 2011 he was considered one of the 100 most influential tweeters in Latin America by the magazine Foreign Policy. He has worked as a correspondent for "IINUNKEE" ("Our Land" in Shuar language) to ECUADOR TV.

In 2011, his first documentary "Land Without Evil Sucumbios" produced by the Cultural Association Ecozine opens the International Film Festival and Environment of Zaragoza. Receives 8 awards for this work, including a recognition of the UN in Ecuador for the defense of Human Rights and Survival International Honorary Award for best documentary indigenous issues at the Film Festival of Barcelona and human rights.

With the support of EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organisations Liabilities and Trade) takes two documentaries in the Ecuadorian Amazon: "The Sarayaku case" and "Yasuní, good living", awarded in the I CONTEST EDITORS SOCIAL AUDIOVISUAL of Granada, organized by ASAD ( Solidarity Development Association from Andalucia).

He made with photojournalist Judith Pratt the short documentary "The bad trip of Daysi" which was a finalist in the Daroca Prison & Film Fest.

His works have been broadcast on television (TV3, Aragón TV, Sucumbíos TV) and have traveled more than 160 festivals in 20 countries, highlighting the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, Washington, the oldest environmental film festival in the world, member of Green Film Network.

He currently works in the diffusion "DISCOVERING LINDANE: HCH legacy," a documentary on POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) in the Spanish Pyrenees, a project developed by LIFE DISCOVERED (EU). This work has received the Felix de Azara Award for Social Media.

Thiago Brandimarte Mendonça is a director, screenwriter and playwriter. He has a distinguished career in Brazil as a filmmaker. His films participate in major brazilian festivals (Gramado, Brasília, It's all true) and also by international festivals (Amiens, Amsterdam, Huelva, Barcelona, Sapporo, Bogotá, Montevideo, etc), receiving numerous awards. He works with important Brazilian directors of the new generation as a screenwriter. He is also a music composer, curator and film critic. It stands out in Sao Paulo as a cultural activist.

His first film in 2008 with "Minami in Close-up - the magazine in Boca" Best Director Award at the Brasilia Festival. In 2009 he directed the TV documentary "Santa Efigenia and his sins" and co-directed with adirley queirós the film "Out of Bounds" (DOCTV). Was writer of the following two works Adirley ("Days of Strike" and "The city is one?"). In 2012 he directed the doc. "Adhemar jump" to the Olympic Sport Memory Series ESPN and awarded short "The War of the cartoons" and "Piove, il film di Pio." It is a member of the collective Zagaia, founder of the Carnival block Fool cord and editor of Zagaia magazine. Theater debut as a playwright with the Folias group in 2010. He is currently director of the theater group Cia Terror. In 2015 he directed "Fool's Day" (with Marco Actuary), "Entremundo", "Waiting fat man" and the movie "Young Unfortunate".

Palm oil causes massive deforestation : entire ecosystems and indigenous communities are threatened. In Borneo and Sumatra, local NGOs show us how they take action to counter this absurd destruction and help us believe that every initiative counts.

Yanett Shelter is a linguist, but his career was always eclectic. After working a few years as a volunteer in several NGOs to protect wildlife in Costa Rica and Bolivia, she was formed in permaculture and became a guide in a train that runs through the Canadian Rockies. Connected with nature since childhood, his travels took her to transmit messages about environmental conservation.

Emmanuel Coquelou began working as a filmmaker for the French Embassy in Beijing and as assistant camera for big-budget American series on the island of Malta; but he preferred to go the way of committed cinema and he made reports on the environment. He also organizes and conducts workshops on staging and technical training on audiovisual ten years ago in Auvergne (France).

In 1990, the discovery of a mysterious frog motivated a Spanish ecologist to begin research on this little amphibian. After three years of extensive studies, Jordi Serra Cobo finally described this new species and named Rana Pyrenaica .

Starting in the footsteps of the rare Pyrenean frog, the film invites us into the chaotic world of high mountain torrents. In this turbulent environment, live alongside the frog as rare beings are strange.

All of them have a complex evolutionary history. All of them are now threatened with extinction.

Beyond the magic of a naturalist discovered the Pyrenean frog has much to teach us ... on the middle course, but also about ourselves and the uncertain future that awaits us.

Marie Daniel and Fabian Mazzocco work together 5 years ago. To his credit they have seven films and several works together. Your meeting point is the desire to ask about nature with a poetic and unusual look away format often induced in the genre of "documentary nature."

After following studies in biology and ecology, Fabien joined the IFFCAM, a film school on wildlife created near Poitiers in 2004. There he joined Marie who has studies in Philosophy and a great interest in the documentary creation.

Jane Goodall , one of the most inspiring and renowned activists of all time, has spent the past five years to spread his message with two musicians. Trio is a story about friendship, love of nature and passion for music. An intimate and authentic portrait of the planet's most beloved primatologist .

Iván Sáinz-Pardo (Madrid, 1972) is licensed in direction of cinema and television by the prestigious School of Cinema of Munich (HFF MÜNCHEN).

With only a handful of shorts, more than 2 millions of visits in YOUTUBE, and more than 150 prizes in film festivals of the whole world, he has monopolized the attention and the international recognition of the public and the critique.

He has got a prenomination to the Academy Awards (Oscar) in 2001, one nomination to the "Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2001" (German Oscar) for "Schneckentraum" and the prize for the best European short 2004 with "Simones Labyrinth" in the International Festival of Fantastic Cinema of Brussels. It won also the "Shocking Shorts Awards 2003" as best short in Germany and Sainz-Pardo was invited to make a Film Master in Universal Studios in Los Angeles.

Recently he prepares his first full-lenght film and works as scriptwriter at cinema and television.